Process Intensification in Practice

Part 1 Foreword. Part 2 Keynote addresses: the fouling of heat transfer surfaces; process systems engineering to support the development of future processing systems. Part 3 Introductory session: methodologies for process intensification. Part 4 Heat transfer: using binary ice mixtures for process improvement; compact to very compact heat exchangers for the process industry; rotex - an intensified absorption heat pump; procedure for rapidly determining the benefits of heat transfer enhancement; the heating, by viscous dissipation, of liquids flowing across an enclosed rotating disc. Part 5 Reactors: intensification of the anthraquinone process for production of hydrogen peroxide; a study of a process intensive three phase reactor for the selective hydrogenation of 2-butyne-1, 4-diol; spinning disc reactor for the intensification of styrene polymerisation; applicability of high-density gas-liquid reactors to typical chemical processes; simulated moving bed adsorptive reactor; synthesis of non-particles of caCO3 in a novel reactor; breakage of oil drops in a kenics mixer; compact heat exchangers as chemical reactors for process intensification (PI); reactive extrusion - heterogeneous hydrogenation of highly viscous solutions in an intermeshing twin screw extruder; a high-intensity gas-liquid tubular reactor under supersonic two phase flow conditions. Part 6 Modelling: CFD for optimizing compact static mixing systems; turbulent flows loaded with particles in compact heat exchangers - application to particulate fouling. Part 7 Mass transfer: evaluation of oscillary flow mixing in tubular reactors for continuous processing ; advantages of induced pulsing flow in a trickle bed; industrial practice of HIGRAVITEC in water deaeration. Part 8 Separation processes: enhanced separation processes; centrifugal adsorption technology for the removal of volatile organic compounds from water; practical process intensification shown with the example of a hydrogen peroxide distillation system.